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I swear to god reviewers don't know how to review animation movies, they seem to hold them to completely different standards than live-action movies.
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Isn't Rick and Morty done in a largely improv-style - that I can understand the stretches between episodes.
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Mar 31, 2017 23:04
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:"improv" and "animated" sounds like absolute hell to manage from my understanding, they have a skeleton of a plot outline, and let the actors basically cut loose and then animate the parts they liked.
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Mar 31, 2017 23:25
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they wisely picked a slot where they're not competiting with a lot, also never underestimate the bad taste of the viewing public, why else would epic movie exist?
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Apr 4, 2017 23:07
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Invader Zim and Tim Burton probably single-handedly supported Hot Topic for the 90s and 00s. Yea, it's been my experience, that people who are/were really into Zim (and Johnny the Homicidal Maniac) were edgelords completely unaware that they're just as much a "Sheep" like everyone else they made fun of.
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Apr 6, 2017 04:43
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Das Boo posted:Things got weird in this thread while I was gone. Show's not bad, it's just the fanbase - I'd say even the creator hates them, but he's kind of a massive misanthrope.
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Apr 6, 2017 16:56
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God drat it, the Walrus and the Carpenter is in my head now. And honestly, I don't like Wizards save for it's Finale - I just don't like Bakshi's works, I respect him as an influence on animation, but there's just something about it that I just don't like.
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Apr 7, 2017 07:32
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Just saw the new Smurfs movie, and I thought it was pretty good! And I usually hate Smurfs! Honestly it's the first time it's mentioned probably since it was announced.
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Apr 8, 2017 06:39
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Dude, I love Paprika but I would NOT show that one to kids.
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Apr 10, 2017 06:53
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Space Cadet Omoly posted:Paprika has enough action throughout that I think kids would be entertained up it. And there's one scene where Chiba gets ripped out of her Paprika persona that is framed in a way that feels almost like a rape scene.
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Apr 10, 2017 18:01
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You all remind me I need to watch the Iron Giant.
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Apr 10, 2017 23:59
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Rat Pack or Clooney version?
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Apr 11, 2017 01:14
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Oh that's really nice, neat art style, the dialogue's really natural
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Apr 14, 2017 04:17
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What is Spark?
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Apr 16, 2017 04:50
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That looks as if someone skimmed Journey to the West, and decided to take pieces of it to get the Sonic the Hedgehog fans.
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Apr 16, 2017 05:10
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Captain Underpants looks like it'll be hilarious and it hits the exact tone the books had - cheeky, slightly subversive, and fun.
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Apr 17, 2017 23:29
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Sadly, in ways it's better than the light novel - Meyer Link and Charlotte gets almost no characterization in the novel, and the hunter's group dynamics is very different and rather gross.
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Apr 18, 2017 20:10
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roughly (I forgot her name, since I'm bad with names), the woman is basically raped by the rest of the crew, and wasn't as self-reliant, and she ends up falling in love with D. EDIT: I say rather because I'm going off on memory and can't confirm if I'm remember correctly or exaggerating it. I do love the setting, and there's some genuinely good books (Tale of the Dead Town, Journey to the Northern Sea 1 and 2), but as a whole, the VHD novels got a lot of issues, some of which did make me drop the series. Robindaybird fucked around with this message at 20:30 on Apr 18, 2017 |
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Apr 18, 2017 20:26
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Those stills really have a 40s Disney feel, and look at Joe's thumb, it's a loving flesh ribbon.
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Apr 18, 2017 23:29
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PenguinKnight posted:That face that kid is pulling reminds me a bit of Joan Cornelia's comics. He's going to pull out a knife stab his uncle, and then himself in a glorious blood fountain so that's what his smile reminded me off, I was just thinking it looks weirdly familiar.
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Apr 18, 2017 23:49
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Motto posted:I mostly remember it feeling incredibly sterile. This is something I notice with ALL Tim Burton's movies, even the stuff that's considered unequivocally good - there's this kind of sterileness in the direction and set that keeps the audience at arm's reach from the characters and actions.
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Apr 19, 2017 01:51
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Yea, I saw a Jetsons WWE dvd in Walmart.
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Apr 19, 2017 04:57
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Either one of the cells of the Unicorn fleeing the Red Bull in The Last Unicorn, or something from the dew/spring fairies from Fantasia
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Apr 22, 2017 05:45
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Hedrigall posted:But... I've heard the DTV sequel is bad. Am I right in deciding to ignore it? It's very mediocre-forgettably bad if it was it's own thing, but as a sequel to NIMH it's loving terrible. Lot of contradictions with what the rats were trying to achieve in the first film, and shoehorn an extremely cliche fantasy plot into a setting where it doesn't fit. Like Fievel Goes West is actually good even if lighter in tone then American Tail, and the Land Before Time Sequels are banal, but Timmy to the Rescue is just bad for non-Bluth sequels to Bluth movies.
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Apr 23, 2017 03:27
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That's the biggest issue with the series, it wasn't easy to keep up with what's going on because games kept hopping Platforms and expects that you played every one of them. You had PS2 - GBA - PS2 - DS - PSP - 3DS - PS3, and those are the games important to the story. Re:Coded is a lovely mobile game that got ported to the DS that has zero importance whatsoever, and there's the mobile game that's more worldbuilding.
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Apr 26, 2017 20:48
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Schwarzwald posted:I think that might be the point. The reason for all the spin offs and side stories is that those games are largely unconnected from the games that come before them and from the games that follow--playing all the previous games isn't necessary for them, and playing them isn't necessary for playing later games. The whole conceit of all that those games being ostensibly necessary for the understanding the full franchise is largely marketing. the issue is 2 references Chain of Memories heavily (otherwise, Namine, and Axel and other Nobodies are kind of out of nowhere) - 363/2 expands on the Nobody business, and 3's setting up to heavily require 3D and Birth by Sleep to understand what's going on. Re:Coded, and chi are basically the only ones that have zero plot importance. I mean, I love the series, it's fun to play, but I won't excuse the poor organization, and the plot isn't super-great, but least for me it hits the sweet spot of cheesy-bad to be enjoyable and somewhat invested.
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Apr 27, 2017 02:20
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LeJackal posted:Now I wonder what lays beyond the veil of edits. Thank you! The Music is good, but it's cool to hate on Billy Joel so people tend to poo poo on it. And kind of easy for a young actor to get upstaged by the likes of Cheech, Bette Midler, and Billy Joel and Disney hadn't really prepare for it. Then again, I think that's also an issue with he source material, Oliver is kind of a non-entity aside from being a sad good child that Victorian society screws over. The dogs were definitely better villains, but having them fall and get electrocuted on the third rail was being fuckin' horrifying, they're bad guys but they're still dogs. Apparently Disney had to prove they didn't shock dogs because the sounds were just too real for the audience.
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Apr 27, 2017 16:56
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Fangz posted:http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/tolkien-cs-lewis-disney-snow-white-narnia-hobbit-dwarves Wow - "What might not have come of it if this man had been educated–or even brought up in a decent society?", C. S Lewis is a loving dickhead.
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Apr 27, 2017 17:00
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Barudak posted:Wait were you not aware? One of his arguments about why expressed sexual desires were wholly unnatural is because he argued no one would willfully watch a show where someone cooks a delicious meal and at the end you cant eat it. Like I vaguely knew he's kind of an rear end (especially concerning how Susan was Not Invited Back to Narnia), but the sheer level of snobbish rear end in a top hat radiating from that line just took me aback.
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Apr 27, 2017 17:03
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starkebn posted:so for some Disney gets a pass on being anti-semetic because he was a product of his era but C S Lewis and Tolkein can't get a pass on being colonialists and classist. Because even for the era they're pretty assholish for that and it's not like Disney is putting himself on a higher moral ground, while CS Lewis does have a tendency to preach morality.
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Apr 27, 2017 22:52
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Macaluso posted:I've seen that meme floating around and even before that response on tumblr came out I thought it was stupid. and given with budget and technology limitations, TV cartoons used to be a lot more limited unless it's Disney or certain Nick shows - not counting the ones that look different because the artists didn't have the time t keep from them going off-model. Though I suppose this meme is the evolution of the DW Face (though that's more protesting why that face keeps showing up in posters and promo material).
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Apr 27, 2017 23:33
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Das Boo posted:I wanted to scream the first time I realized that lovely little girl had a song. Jenny's whole thing makes more sense when you realize in the early drafts she's suppose to be Penny from the Rescuers, but Disney nixed it, not wanting to tie their properties together like that.
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Apr 28, 2017 03:47
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Shadow Hog posted:I forgot Cheech Marin was in this film. Sure took them long enough to get Tommy Chong into a film too. Lot of people undeservedly trash on it for having Billy Joel, Being 80s and kind of grimy-looking (trouble is... that's *exactly* how New York looked at the time) and it came out just before the Renaissance
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Apr 29, 2017 04:48
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Yea, it's a bit weird, I feel it makes more sense if they had for example showed Sykes has poor impulse control or something like that.
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Apr 29, 2017 04:52
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LeJackal posted:New York was exactly like that. Grimy. Billy Joels everywhere. Nothing but disgusting pathetic hobos and massively jawed loan sharks honking horns and picking pockets. You know what I meant - New York was very dirty and gritty, there used to be unashamed porn shops in times square instead of assholes in knock-off mascot costumes mugging tourists for money and Flavortown restaurants - the city really got cleaned up around the 90s.
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Apr 29, 2017 04:54
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Shadow Hog posted:Yeah, that still held up. I'd always sorta mentally lumped the film into the Disney Renaissance, even though that didn't start until a film later with The Little Mermaid, just since I remembered the animation and song quality being around that level, and I'm not seeing a whole lot to dissuade me from that opinion. I should like to see Great Mouse Detective next, and see how well that one fares as well, since that was... just before Oliver and Company, I think? Yea, Oliver really wasn't that active of a protagonist in Oliver Twist - the biggest action he did was ask for seconds that got him kicked out of the orphanage, gets thrown out of a funeral home after beating up another kid for insulting his mom, but otherwise stuff just happens to him - particular the events the movie actually covers. As for the Great Mouse Detective, it's my favorite - Vincent Price hamming it up, some really nice music, Basil has a very manic energy to him - he captures the spirit of Holmes better than Burlington Coatfactory.
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Apr 29, 2017 14:49
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Tuxedo Catfish posted:And I'm sure there are people who think The Aristocrats was the best thing ever. And I know for a fact there are people who will go to bat for The Sword in the Stone, because I'm one of them. as a whole Sword in the Stone isn't good, but it has some really fantastic scenes, it just doesn't add up in a way where the whole is greater than the sum of it's parts.
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Apr 30, 2017 20:36
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Shadow Hog posted:Just finished watching the film; decided to livetweet my thoughts as the film wore on, so I guess I'll post that thread here: Marahute's Flight in the beginning is worth the cost of the Blu-Ray alone. I have to say it's sadly one of the few movies were the sequel handles the romance without effectively restarting it in order to 'capture the spark', instead it builds on what's before.
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Apr 30, 2017 23:22
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It's way more common than you think. I went to a high school that graded exams and the loving State assessment test so heavily that just passing those will get you a C or C+ grade, which isn't great but enough to let you graduate. Let's put it this way, my state assessment test is so heavily weighted that for two years in high school and one year in middle school in math classes, we're solely taught how to answer the questions. Not how to solve it, but how to answer it.
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Jim Parsons shows some wit, but god drat he plays some really loving insufferable characters.
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